Yes, please, bring back the drug war. Things were so much better when we were locking up addicts instead of coddling them. Zero sarcasm - 100% serious. Those of us who can't work from home are sick and damn tired of being endangered by people smoking fentanyl on our beautiful light rail system. You see it every single day now and it's beyond ridiculous.

@1 - the might be axing their "journalists" but whoever runs the comment section ban hammer still has a job. Idiots that run this place don't realize the banned commentators are the ones driving their traffic. People like to hear counter arguments to the official narrative and are beyond sick of the woke mind virus.

Came upon the scene of the "Officer Involved Shooting" going to QFC on Sunday morning. It happened at the Chevron on 145th St. N at 17th Ave. 6 cop cars still on-site.

Glad no one died.

Your Portland Mercury tweets are broken.

Definitely Elon's fault. Try looking at them from an incognito browser window if they work on your machine.

Speaking of [space!] garbage:

1st we filled the Lands
then we discovered Oceans
and wondered … what's Next?

getchyur Helmet ON, baby:
what goes Up
& all that

"Habitat for Humanity
gets into the mid-rise condo game"

WAY TO GO H4H!
& you Too president Jimmy!
Thank You for your AWESOME Service
instead of just Going for all the fucking GOLD.

no Wonder the so-called "Right"
hates Everything you stood for.

@9 -- see
'Gravity' the
Space Movie
& outer-Space junk

"People like to hear counter arguments to the official narrative and are beyond sick of the woke mind virus."

Hahahaha. Aw. Did you get yer self banned again, shitbag?

"Counter arguments" like totally inventing bullshit like you constant idiotic claims that "Youth suicides have skyrocketed!" and "Masks/vaccines don't work." Those are not "arguments" those are rightwing ideological purity talking points you NEED to be true for your worldview to stay tenuously glued together. They are rightwing "Wokeisms," if you will.

Take your MAGA horseshit back to Facebook, Trollflake.

@11 - yup, I was banned for speaking the unpopular truth. But you can't keep a good man down. My situation isn't as bad as say, Galileo's was, but in the same light. Meanwhile you've only been banned for being an asshole.

I thought Cher did "Bang Bang."

Space garbage is going to have to be dealt with very soon. It’s a real cluttered junkyard up there.

Who am I - but I don’t find other people’s sex lives all that interesting.

It is very unwise to run against a sitting president who is, by default, also the head of your party. You wind up with egg (and shit) all over your face, and you can never totally wipe it off. Robert Kennedy, Jr. First of all, doesn’t protocol state that you drop the “Junior” once the “Senior” is gone? Like if you are Hamilton Bennett IV. If the three before you are dead, then you can drop the IV? But anyway, what a curve ball he turned out to be. Shame after his environmental work on the Hudson and everything else, too. Just kind of went off the rails. Man, was he ever cute in his day. He’ll probably get a few votes in Massachusetts…still.

Is it just me or does CPAC have - like - three or four annual conventions a year? Seems we don’t go more than a few months without the clowns in cowgirl costumes riding into some town to be innervued and be-utch about their tay-ux dollers goin’ to You-Crane. Annie get your brain.

And speaking about brains and the lack thereof, there will always be, I’m almost certain, a segment of the population that will be homo- and/or transphobic. It could be that their brains just can’t process the concept of gender fluidity or any variation on strict gender enforcement. Perhaps it’s the result of a damaged childhood stuffed with imposed propaganda. Doesn’t matter because there isn’t much one can do about it except 1) scrape it off your shoe, and 2) make absolutely sure no one like that every has power or influence over you. We know who our friends are, right?

@15 - and Nancy Sinatra, too. First, I think.

@3 You are a perfect example of why Conservatism needs to be eradicated by any means necessary.

Meanwhile Twitter died when Elon tried to get Twitter to pay for its own API.

But hey, he's a "genius".

“The same Phil Tavel who wanted to slow-roll funding for homeless services when he ran for the same seat in 2019? Yes, that Phil Tavel.”

Good thing Seattle didn’t carefully examine homelessness funding before spending a lot more over the last four years, eh?

“As Seattle’s homeless budget grew, officials knew of financial issues years before fraud hit

‘For years, city officials in the executive branch of the city have known their human services department had issues with managing its budget of hundreds of millions of dollars. As the department's budget ballooned in the last few years to deal with the homelessness crisis, they even made some changes to keep up.’

‘… the department's budget exploded to more than $300 million at the beginning of 2021 and has received $85 million more since.

‘"While the growth of HSD's budget coincides with the great need in community, HSD's financial management capacity has not grown comparably," Ben Noble, the city's budget director, said in an August email warning the City Council…’

(https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/as-seattles-homeless-budget-grew-officials-knew-of-financial-issues-years-before-fraud-hit/?amp=1)

Sooooo … is the Stranger endorsing Tavel for District 1? It seems they’re now admitting he was correct all along.

@9 kristofarian: +1 Right spot ON about Habitat for Humanity and 39th President, Jimmy Carter! My parents did volunteer work for HFH, and I have made large donations, including furniture for those in need.

@12: Tiresome again: Isn't it tedious having to change your screen name more frequently than most people change their undies? Are you wanted by the feds?

@16 Bauhaus I: That, and we have a shitload of fetid RepubliKKKan junk we need to get rid of. I say let's fire the entire GOP and their enablers off one way to Mars. See how they fare on an extreme lack of resources.

@17 Bauhaus I: Those boots were made for walkin'....

@18 Greenwood Bob: for the WIN!!

@19 Will in Seattle: Wow. All the more reason why I'm so glad I never subscribed to Twitter and never will set up an account.

@20: Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, Scooter-pie.

Style guide update: going forward, writers should remember to always place the word "nuance" in scare-quotes, following the convention previously adopted for "free speech" and "asking questions."

5 seems to want to turn the Stranger’s comment section into a version of the cesspit that Willamette Week runs.

Which is exactly what will happen- and already seems to be happening as a result of reticence with the “ban hammer.”

@20 -- "Yeah,
the GOP and conservatives
suck but advocating mass murder... "

Scooter, when Greenwood Bob said
'Conservatism needs to be eradicated'
he's not calling for Extermination of all
Conservatives -- the Ideology's gotta die
Not the practitioners. perhaps I'm wrong
but there's a pretty fucking Big Difference.

No shitzy I do NOT 'hate moderates
with every fiber of my being'
I just Hate the Anchor they
yoke onto joining the 21st
Fucking Century. and Sm-
okin' Joe's trying his hand
at Progressivism! & how
'Bout that damn Bernie

Dragging Sleepy Joe
(suck on that one tensy)
to the Left -- well not on
the Railway Union Fiasco
but Calling for Childcare?

or you can't fucking Make our fucking Chips?
Yeah, bitches! THAT's what I'm Talkin'bout!

and fucking Bernie
screaming at BIG Fucking Pharma
and Insulin COMES DOWN TO $35/ a fucking DOSE?

yeah Centrists I have
No love for but no
Hate either

they just seem
.
I dunno.
Too status
fucking Quozy.

THAT's the kinda Shit
gonna Win Elections.

pass.

@12- your “truth” isn’t as true as, say, Galileo’s was either.

I am amazed Ohioans left and right aren't suing the shit out of Norfolk Southern Railroad at this point, with train derailments occurring almost daily. The Buckeye State must be run by a RepubliKKKan crime syndicate.

@26 & @29 Tobe in a Robe: I don't know why you're so mule stubbornly sold on Joe "I'm Mr. Coal Magnate No Matter WHAT" Manchin, and his fellow McConnell sock puppet, Krysten Sinema. All Manchin and Sinema have ever done is block vital progressive issues in the Senate. Far too many important bills on the economy, affordable healthcare, gun restrictions, environmental concerns, and more have died in the Senate because of McConnell, Manchin, and Sinema! They're self-serving sellouts and tools of the GOP. Why don't you get this?
Here's a hint: FOX TeeVee is a proven unreliable source of news.

@30 kristofarian: +1 Ditto.

@27 & @28 kristofarian: AMEN!

@17, nope Cher first. It was written by Sonny Bono. May I recommend the Terry Reid version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1rRIIs9_YU&ab_channel=TerryReid-Topic

speaking of Progressivism
nyt:

Biden Budget Will Propose
Tax Increase to Boost Medicare

The president’s plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program’s solvency by 25 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/business/biden-budget-medicare-tax-increase.html

Smokin' Joe's
Comin' Around
perhaps he Truly
IS running for 2024.

SIC 'EM SMOKIN' JOE!!!
after all What have
you got to lose?

@27: “Scooter, when Greenwood Bob said
'Conservatism needs to be eradicated'
he's not calling for Extermination of all
Conservatives…”

Read harder. Greenwood Bob’s entire comment @18 clearly reads, in full, “@3 You are a perfect example of why Conservatism needs to be eradicated by any means necessary.” Those last three words most certainly do not preclude the use of mass murder to eradicate conservatism. Likewise, that it was personally addressed to a specific commenter indicates Greenwood Bob does not in any way preclude the use of force against individuals when eradicating conservatism.

If Greenwood Bob wants to clarify his comment, he’s free to do so. Thus far, he’s most definitely not precluded using any amount of force to accomplish his stated goal.

The editorialists on this rag bray again. We got it. Crack sentences were unjust and stupid. REALLY unjust and stupid. Same with the pot prison terms. Prison terms for pot? Crazy, but still happening in many red states, particularly the deep south. Yes, those people are mentally retarded. Oh wait, I can't use that word, right? Sorry, Quelle horreur. NONE of this changes the FACT that China/Mexico are in an ACTIVE DRUG WAR ON THE USA, with fentanyl, and other hybrid chemical forms of meth and cocaine, LACED with fentanyl. THEY, not US, are dumping this garbage into our country. Did we send them firearms? Of course, we did. America is a stupid gun nut nation full of profiteers. Many are probably on the take letting this garbage be distributed so it can kill 100k a year! 100,000 overdoses a year? And what's your solution. Oh, just NOTHING. DO NOTHING. There is NO TREATMENT FOR FENTANYL after 3 years in which it destroys your brain. You can be instititionalized, that's it.
Do you support that, or is that prison?

You're living in a fantasy world just like the psychotic christian right. We need to STOP this stuff from being distributed, and that will probably involve exposing liars in both parties who are on the take. GOOD LUCK AMERICA! THERE ARE BETTER PLACES TO LIVE!